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...Yoga in Hollywood to improve my focus, my center and my mind-body relationship. In short, I'm here because I live in L.A. and this is what we do. "Wellness centers are popping up in Los Angeles," says Narayan, a practitioner of what she calls sacred healing beauty. "Spas are having a hard time right now because they're only pampering. They're not addressing wellness. I bridge the gap between beauty and healing." To improve my wellitude, I'm trying the 90-minute Faceology, a $180 procedure you've probably never heard of because Narayan made...
...times one of his victims had called him on his scam. Sgarbi's usual ploy, according to investigators, was to prowl hotel bars. Not just any hotel bars, though. The soft-spoken man booked himself into exclusive spas in Austria and Switzerland, places that invite well-paying clientele to leave their normal life behind, to unwind and open up. Selling himself as someone in need of rest as well, Sgarbi would strike up conversation when his victim's guard was down. For some of his victims, the handsome man must have seemed just like part of the therapy...
...began as a trickle of studies has become a torrent doesn't mean that everyone is happy, and many scientists will continue to have nothing to do with what they see as fluff. Still, the movable feast of institutes, academic treatises, self-help books, websites, healing centers and luxury spas with a spiritual bent grows steadily larger. Here is just a sampling of what's available...
...fixes helps explain why interest is surging in detoxing and deep cleansing. More than 40% of people searching online for spa services are hunting for something to clean out the pipes, according to SpaFinder, a consumer resource for spa information; that's almost 50% more than in 2007. Most spas now offer some type of detox, with services ranging from colonics--water-injection enemas that literally flush out your system--to Calgon-take-me-away treatments meant to detach you from financial worries, family, work and other sources of stress. There are also thousands of do-it-yourselfers who swear...
...With the island's identity shifting so dramatically, it can be hard to know if you're getting the "real" Majorca. Even the agriturismos - farmhouses converted to rustic hotels in the 1980s - increasingly style themselves as "rural retreats," complete with spas, plasma TVs and low-fat exfoliants...